Brief Life History of Willa M.
When Willa M. Ripley was born in 1879, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States, her father, William Ripley, was 48 and her mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 38. She married Rolandus Cleveland Marshall in 1926, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Cairo, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States in 1930 and Grant District, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States in 1935. She died on 30 May 1968, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sistersville, Tyler, West Virginia, United States.
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- Willa Marshall in household of Rolandus Marshall, "United States Census, 1940"
- Willa M Ripley, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Willa Ripley Marshall, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Ripley (Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire). The Hampshire and Surrey placenames derive from Old English ripel, rippel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename probably derives from the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English ripel, rippel or the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah.
History: William Ripley (died 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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